Avanti Entrepreneur Podcast; David Mammano interviews Ramon Ray

For more than 20 years, David Mammano, a serial entrepreneur has thrived on starting and growing businesses. David has started, sold, franchised, licensed, and taken on partners as well as investors with his companies. Today he thrives on helping others start or grow their businesses by infusing the latest entrepreneurial principles into their strategy. Relevant experiences...

Want to Scale Your Business? Don’t be an Entrepreneur: An Interview with Chris McGoff

Chris McGoff is a business builder, best-selling author, investor, and advisor to business leaders throughout the world. He has founded, partnered, and invested in several companies in industries ranging from service and product companies to real estate and cloud-based solution providers. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, from high tech start-ups to huge government bureaucracies,...

Don’t be the Doughnut Hole: 5 Steps to Scaling Expertise Based Businesses

“You can’t scale you,” says Nina Kaufman, small business champion, award-winning attorney, podcast host, and trusted thought leader. Knowledge and expertise based businesses are met with unique obstacles when it comes to scalability and sustainability. If you own a business and are the Chief Doer, listen as Nina shares her stories of doughnut holes,...

Marie Forleo, Ramon Ray and More Discuss How To Maximize Your Productivity – Dell in Brooklyn

At "Dell in Brooklyn 2018", Ramon Ray, Editor of Smart Hustle Magazine joined Marie Forleo , philanthropist, entrepreneur and writer and other professionals to get their advice and tips on how to be productive. Watch the video and see the full list of interviewees and their tips below. Gina Noy, President – Noy Tax - Find the time...

Future Proof Your Company Says NJ CoWorking Space Entrepreneur

Donna Miller is a woman on a mission. A mission to ensure NJ's business owners can have affordable working space and focus more on their businesses and less on their back-office operations. C3 Workplace is an oasis for many New Jersey businesses. In this interview, Donna and I speak about the importance of future proofing...

How To Expand Your Business in Another State?

Successful small business owners want to expand their companies. It's part of their entrepreneurial DNA to want to grow their businesses into something bigger than what their brand is now. Small business expansion includes several strategies, from attracting new customers to encouraging loyal customers to purchase more products and services from your company. However,...

You Can’t Do Everything. Build A Team Says Shark Tank Contestant Travis Perry of Chord Buddy

Travis Perry gets a joy out of seeing children (and adults) learn the guitar through his invention and company, Chord Buddy. You might have seen him on an episode of Shark Tank. During our discussion Travis not only shared his story, but also offered several important tips, including: You must have passion to keep you...

From NFL Player to Coffee Shop Mogul – Lessons In Hiring, Franchising and Being the Best

NFL football players are some of the best athletes, but do they make great entrepreneurs? I interviewed, Shawn Bouwens who owns, with his wife, over 30 Scooter's Coffee shops. On why franchising? Shawn said, "Why reinvent the wheel". There's a case to be made for being an entrepreneur through franchising.  He said one of the...

How A Turf Equipment Company Reinvented Itself with Recurring Revenue, Sales Teams and more.

Engineers are smart people. They're great at making cool products. However, to successfully grow a business, it takes a lot more. Listen to my discussion with Andrew Limpert, CEO of Firefly Automatix how he reinvented the company and started boosting sales and profits. We discuss the importance of building a sales team, upselling customers on other products and...